In July, the government announced a new commitment to improve end of life care in England in response to What’s Important to Me: A Review of Choice in End of Life Care. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The SAGE & THYME for Advance Care Planning (ACP) workshop has been delivered fifty times around the UK.
Participant feedback (31% GPs) has demonstrated significantly increased confidence in starting an end of life care or advance care planning conversation and in responding to the patient’s concerns. 74% of workshop participants said that they definitely planned to change their practice as a result of the workshop.
A relatives room at University Hospitals of North Midlands has undergone a transformation to help provide relatives of palliative care patients a more comfortable experience during their stay in hospital.
The two “Swan Rooms” will build on the work being carried out by The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) to improve End of Life and Bereavement Care at RSH and at the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford.are to be officially opened at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) tomorrow (Tuesday 18 October 2016).
The introduction of the two rooms – on Wards 25 and 28 at RSH – is part of the Trust’s Swan Scheme, which uses a swan symbol to represent End of Life and Bereavement Care.
understanding how best to provide palliative care for frail older people with non-malignant conditions is an international priority. We aimed to develop a community-based episodic model of short-term integrated palliative and supportive care (SIPS) based on the views of service users and other key stakeholders in the United Kingdom. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This literature review attempted to identify current knowledge of the end of life care needs of patients with drug and alcohol addiction, particularly in the UK, and to identify any existing good practice guidance.
Three themes emerged: first, the need to improve recognition of substance misuse in patients receiving palliative care, and how to meet the pain management challenges palliative care teams face when caring for patients who have current or past opiate, benzodiazepine or alcohol addictions. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
Amanda Cheesley qualified as a nurse in 1981 after training with Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps. She served in the first Gulf War and has also worked for the NHS as a district nurse and a Marie Curie nurse. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The Trust has appointed a Professor of Nursing this week. Professor Wilfred McSherry has a special interest in developing a holistic approach to end of life care and will be working with UHNM's nursing team to help staff develop their competencies in this area. The role has been introduced in partnership with Staffordshire University and will ensure staff understand the positive impact of person-centred care.
NHS England have launched a new Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care website, a one stop shop for palliative and end of life care information.
The Cancer Vanguard will develop programmes to raise public awareness and work collaboratively with partners in education, health and social care to shift the focus towards prevention and early diagnosis, to provide a recovery package to aid those living with and beyond cancer and to greatly improve care at the end of life.
understanding how best to provide palliative care for frail older people with non-malignant conditions is an international priority. We aimed to develop a community-based episodic model of short-term integrated palliative and supportive care (SIPS) based on the views of service users and other key stakeholders in the United Kingdom. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This document summarises the evidence-base on medicines optimisation in long-term pain. It is a key therapeutic topic which has been identified to support medicines optimisation. It is not formal NICE guidance.
Palliative care is defined by the WHO2 as ‘an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and …....To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This paper examines the development and psychometric characteristics of three instruments about end of life, designed for use with adults with intellectual disability (ID). Respectively, the instruments assess understanding of the concept of death, end-of-life planning, and fear of death. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The aim of this study was to determine if community-based palliative care provided to people dying from non-cancer conditions was associated with reduced hospital costs in the last year of life and how this compared with people dying from cancer.
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Asking patients with palliative care needs about their end-of-life (EoL) preferences is widely acknowledged as an important aspect of EoL care. However, the issue of how to ask patients these questions has not been fully explored. Most prior studies in this area do not differentiate between patients' pragmatic preferences and ideal preferences, and between preferences concerning place of care (PoC) and place of death (PoD). To read the full article, log in using your SSOTP NHS OpenAthens details. SSSFT - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The need to ‘fight’ and remain positive could be having a negative effect on people living with cancer, a new report from Macmillan Cancer Support has revealed.
To identify instruments that could assess the quality of dying and death and their psychometric properties. To assess the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Despite UK national guidance on care after death, it is clear that the bereaved family can experience distress while waiting for the patient's death to be verified. This distress can escalate if there is a delay in verification....It is hoped that this guidance will help to avoid delays that may cause additional distress to grieving families. This article sets out the rationale for the guidance, as well as discussing outstanding concerns and proposals for future considerations
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